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...sense that matters had been spiraling out of control. Forestry officials incinerated some civets, boiled others to death and drowned still more in disinfectant. Also called a civet cat, the small, furry mammal with big innocent-looking eyes is unrelated to real cats, being more of a first cousin to the mongoose. Nevertheless, it was as if China was sacrificing thousands of animals to ward off the Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Race To Contain A Virus | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...iPod mini, introduced last week, is the size of a business card, comes in five brushed-metal colors, has 4 GB of song storage (enough for 1,000 songs) and works the same way its larger cousin does (a special version of which Apple agreed to make for HP last week). But even Mac fans may balk at the new digital music player's price: $249. The cheapest regular-size iPod is a mere $50 more but boasts 11 extra gigabytes of storage. Apple's Steve Jobs, never at a loss for words, has an answer: "It costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tech: Digital Music Players Get Smarter--And Cuter | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...Khan could have imagined. Khan's 21-year-old nephew Mohammad Jaffer Khan says his father?Khan's brother?never got over their separation and died heartbroken a few years back. Then, last year, the family quit their home in the valley after Indian shelling killed a cousin, blew in their windows and doors, and left their village of Chakoti a ravaged wasteland, where machine guns have raked every wall and shrapnel covers the ground. Jaffer says he hopes his father found peace in death. "We buried my father near the border," he says. "So the wind from his country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Glimmer of Hope | 1/11/2004 | See Source »

...also has a family history of athleticism, as her father, Earl McCullouch, played seven seasons with the Detroit Lions and was the 1962 NFL Rookie of the Year. Her brother, Tyrone, played in the NFL for four years and her cousin is New England’s own defensive end Willie McGinest...

Author: By Jessica T. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Hoops' Zone Defense Breaks Down Against Pondexter | 12/16/2003 | See Source »

...Fella first bounced into Dash's mind when, at age 19, he went to a birthday party for rapper Heavy D at a cousin's Manhattan nightclub. The money and beautiful women hooked him. Two years later, a local DJ introduced Dash to Brooklyn rapper Shawn (Jay-Z) Carter. They teamed up, and Dash took Jay-Z on the road, but record labels weren't interested. Frustrated, Dash kept hustling Jay-Z at clubs in order to raise the money to start his own label, named in homage to the oil barons. He eventually persuaded Priority Records to distribute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entrepreneurs: Dashing Diversification | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

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